Trump did what he said he was going to do... aka with regards to Ross. And for that I am very surprised. And also kind of amazed honestly that he kept to his campaign promises.

Good for him.

This is an extremely detailed and dedicated report. Thank you for typing it up.

Mr Trump did what he said... in that he freed the life of a man the vast majority of the Bitcoin community... thought shouldn't be in jail any longer.

He got that right... and for that most Bitcoiners will forgive him. Let's hope he does the other things he said he would do prior to being elected.

True. A person's life far more important than any sbr or whatever. Having said that... he actually did what he said he would do and for that I'm impressed.

Against it? No. But didn't believe it would happen.

We may get a SBR after all.

Dude I watched some of this. I know it's trying to be funny... but it's not. Snowden tried to warn people, back in the 2010s about governmental surveillance in the name of 'freedom' or 'fighting terrorism' or whatever and today essentially nothing has changed if anything it's gotten worse.

Ross, who Trump said he would pardon (Trump doesn't even know who he is) is still in jail. Why? Because Mr. Trump doesn't care about him. But he pardoned 1500 loyalists who will now probably do anything to support the president now that they are free.

All the Kamala rainbow flag jokes won't help... when noone and I mean no-one in traditional society has ever even heard of Bitcoin for peer to peer or MoE transactions.

Just having Bitcoin is not enough.

We need ideas and platforms with which to share them, ways to influence, ways to communicate, and we need to offer people something better than what the politicians can.

"We have freedom money and we will win." The vast majority of Bitcoin purchased is KYC. And there are really few places where people can actually spend their Bitcoin. That has been stomped out and meanwhile the president is apparently selling... memecoins of himself.

Other than El Salvador and Lugano, Switzerland (which I wrote about) there are very few places to spend Bitcoin day to day and governments have somehow made sure it's not used as a MoE.

I agree. Seeing nazis everywhere... it's silly and it's not called for. But do I think there could be a nazi-sympathizer or closet white supremacist/nazi in the White House running things? I mean it's not beyond the scope of possibility...

It is possible and if you look at twitter frankly it's filled with alt-right neo-white supremacist nonsense everywhere it's not the only thing on twitter obviously but there's a lot of it.

When your fellow Americans turn on you and they will eventually because you're different you opted out of the 'nonsense' they bought into or maybe just because you have Bitcoin...

You will think wow I was really stupid. I should have been less trusting, and more critical of the information around me.

The power of governments to invade peoples lives, to make life extremely difficult, and to exert the 'power of the state' is ginormous. It's very big.

Is "the government" coming after you or me? No as individuals no I think that's silly. But have we sleepwalked into an anti-privacy surveillance state? Yes. And the only way to possibly change that is to first recognize what's happened and take it seriously. We don't want any politicians with as much power and influence as governments have right now.

Americans aren't always the good guys, you know. Life isn't a cowboy movie with John Wayne.

"What is it that you think is going on here? Elon's a secret Nazi and in a moment of excitement he let his guard down?"

As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I believe. The media outlets (the social media ones, the ones people actually use) like Twitter, Facebook, Google etc...

Are completely captured. They own all the data of everything posted on them. The can cancel, censor, remove, or ban any user they want, at will any time for anything.

Having so much power in so few companies, to control what Americans see, read, believe, communicate, and think.... where a lot of people get their information is incredibly dangerous and totally dystopian. Hell no I'm not going to give anyone at Twitter the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their intentions or motives, and that certainly includes Mr. Musk.

To make it worse, Twitter is filled with bots and scams which the platform still hasn't meaningfully removed... the only explanation for which I can understand is that they don't want to.

Attention and 'engagement' drive advertising and all of these platforms (google, meta, twitter) are in the advertising business. Whether or not you like Mr Trump (some do some don't) the situation is really dystopian as the incentives are all wrong and people should not trust these platforms or who runs them.

I don't hate trump. I fear him.

And you should too.

Well... I guess people were 'dumb enough' to vote for Trump then thinking he would Free Ross (it looks like he won't).

So then those people who voted for Trump deserve what they get. I mean right?

Dude. I watched the video. From 30 seconds prior to 30 seconds afterwards. And he turned to the opposite side of the stage (his back to the camera) and did the exact same thing again.

I mean maybe somehow maybe just maybe... it wasn't a nazi salute. But most reasonable people with the same life experience and general observation skills would say... hell ya that was a nazi salute. That's 100% what it looked like.

Why give the benefit of the doubt to this jerk?

The competition with China, and the resulting panic, divisiveness, confusion, and social identity crisis (among Republicans and MAGA) has to be the result.

I just have no other way to explain it. Another newer empire is rising. And the American one is declining except the American people and their politicians what the deny the whole thing and distract themselves with nonsense.

Mr Trump doesn't care. It's all the same 'crypto' to him. "Bitcoin is the only digital asset worth holding in a reserve..."

Well not to team Trump. They're interested in... memecoins that they create, holding 80% of the supply. That they can sell off and make money with.

The trump memecoins... are on Solana. And the "bitcoin" the trump company world liberty financial (or whatever it's called) is on Ethereum... It's not even actual Bitcoin. AND they purcahsed a bunch of non-sense tokens and ethereum too.

When will the coping and delusions and denial about what Mr Trump actually is among Bitcoiners stop???

Wait... but it was a Nazi salute. It wasn't taken out of context or photoshopped or whatever. I watched the video, a number of times.

If Elon is a nazi (or thiniks he is) well OK... I mean fine. But let's call a spade a spade here.

The commander and chief is sworn to defend and protect the constitution of the United States.

Not dump memecoins on degens (however stupid they may be).

Instead of memecoins to "help crypto" (aka enrich himself) how about actually improving Bitcoin education generally.

Addressing taxes on Bitcoin. Addressing Bitcoin privacy and its use in the 'real economy' at larger scale. Or demonstrating the difference between Bitcoin and... everything else (crypto scams).

Because dumping memecoins (bought before the public could buy them) does nothing to help any of those things.

So when Trump creates the 'strategic crypto reserve' composed of "American made cryptos...."

Those will include XRP USDT Solana Dogecoin and maybe... the new Trump Coin ;)

But no Bitcoin.

Then what? We all clap, salute and proclaim that 'crypto is great again' and the 'war on crypto is over' after Trump (and his associates) dump their memecoins on Americans and everyone else? While sending money to 'crypto companies' like Ripple?

Because that is the message coming from all of this.

Shitcoins go to zero if you didn't realize. And if Bitcoin 'is a shitcoin' (which it isn't) then it will go to zero too.

I have never bought or used a shitcoin ever, not once and I never will. In addition I run a node and have cold storage, always have.

And I didn't vote for the new shitcoinscammer-in-chief so speak for yourself. What a sad, sad state of affairs.

Announcing there are only '2 sexes' will really, really help the US economy and struggling workers.

Meanwhile Trump dumps on all the 'crypto people' while gifting and scamming the American people.

Trump is a scammer he is not a christian.

'christian values' went by the wayside a long time ago when politicians realized they could scam people for money. (aka Trump and people like him)